american pharoah never heard of him....

[craz07]

who is the best athlete in the world today... simple easy question, just back it up with some fact..

[Scherf]

Bruce Jenner.




Oh, wait...

[Meatwad]

Best real athlete or best steroid athlete?

[icepac]

Check back on his pedigree........especially the one that goes through "mr. prospector" and the one that goes through secretariat.

If you trace back far enough, you will find many crosses of st. simon which, of course, leads to pocahontas who is likely the most important part of many long runner's lineage.

If you trace all the way, you will see many crosses of "regulus" and "eclipse" though the "stormcat' in his recent lineage has historically been a recipe of "big name, small performance".

A very important horse in his pedigree is "sampson" as well as "hautboy" back in the 1600s.

Great pedigree for stamina, size, and ability to build muscle.

With proper training and peaking....................

[zack1234]

The six million dollor man

[Swoop]

Valentino Rossi.

And the fact I back it up with is......he's Valentino Rossi.

[Scherf]

Hey man, Chuck Norris did a six-minute lap of the Nurburgring.



On foot.

[craz07]

bruce jenner lmao

[Zoney]

Valentino Rossi.

And the fact I back it up with is......he's Valentino Rossi.

Seconded

[craz07]

valentino's been dominant for a while now.. i still think cristiano ronaldo is the best pure athlete, although he didn't do well at the world cup he still is considered the best in the world, you're not going to take the ball off him unless the stars are aligned and a comet is expected too, he'll beat you to every 50 50 balll, he'll win over you everytime, ok maybe not everytime, but usually, thats what makes him great, however, the world cup exposed the portuguese players that are not in the same vein as ronaldo, that don't play up to par like ronaldo, but thats ok there's always the next one....

[Swoop]

Ronaldo is 30 and at the top of a sport that, in my not so humble opinion, is for soft nancies who like falling over a lot and crying until the referee awards a penalty.

Rossi is 36 and is at the very top (ie currently leading the world championship, and that's a real world championship, not an American world championship) of a sport that riders compete in with broken bones regularly.  Rossi has been at the top of this sport for....what is it now, 15 years?

If Ronaldo is still considered #1 in the world when he's 36, with no signs of slowing down, then I'll consider him as a pretender to Rossi's throne......unless Rossi is still around at 42.

[craz07]

rude to what the game is about and know he hasn't been a top it for 15 years he went through a dry time when he wasnt winning the champioship like hayden and stoner were so he's not perfect either.....

[Zoney]

Rossi is also an athlete in a sport where you must continually improve or be left behind.  You must also learn how to use new equipment every year.  You have to change how you play when some young whippersnapper takes everyone up to the next level with an improvement in technique.

Physically the sport is as demanding as any of the top sports out there. And it is a sport where you must push past the limits of your equipment and risk a grave injury to find the new limits every year.

[craz07]

at least ronaldo can run i wonder if valentino can do that???

[Muzzy]

Batman.